{"id":3243,"date":"2026-03-12T08:27:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T16:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regions.acsa.org\/8\/?page_id=3243"},"modified":"2026-03-12T08:27:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T16:27:43","slug":"2025-2026-awards-recipients","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/regions.acsa.org\/8\/2025-2026-awards-recipients\/","title":{"rendered":"2025-2026 Awards Recipients"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Congratulations to Region 8 Winners!<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Superintendent of the Year: <strong>Paul Johnson<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"p2\">Adult Education Administrator of the Year:\u00a0 <strong>Traci M. Williams<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Central Office Administrator of the Year:\u00a0 <strong>Maurissa Koide, EdD<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Classified Administrator of the Year:\u00a0<strong> Laura Demaree<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Confidential Administrator of the Year: <strong>Tracy Yip<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Continuation Administrator of the Year: <strong>Liz Tovar<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>CTE Administrator of the Year: <strong>Bari Sholomon<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Curriculum &amp; Instruction Administrator of the Year: <strong>Deepa Mukherjee<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Elementary Principal of the Year: <strong>Mariana Alvarez, EdD<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Elementary Co-Principal of the Year: <strong>Chelsea Armann<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Ferd. Kiesel Memorial Distinguished Service Award: <strong>Mary Ann Dewan, EdD<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Middle Grade Principal of the Year: <strong>Tamara Unck<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Middle Grade Co-Principal of the Year: <strong>Catherie Olson<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Marcus Foster Memorial Award For Administrator Excellence: <strong>Markus Autrey<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Partners in Educational Excellence Award: <strong>Communities Organizing Resources to Advance Learning<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Personnel Administrator of the Year:\u00a0 <strong>Jason Waite<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Professor of Education of the Year: <strong>Anthony Oskar Alvarado, EdD<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Retired Administrator of the Year: <strong>Alicia Padilla<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Robert E Kelly Award for Outstanding Community Service: <strong>Denise Williams<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Secondary Principal of the Year: <strong>Greg Wohlman<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Special Education Administrator of the Year: <strong>Shelly Ota<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Student Services Administrator of the Year: <strong>Thomas Carroll<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Technology Administrator of the Year: <strong>Julie Grenier<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Valuing Diversity Award:\u00a0 <strong>Kristina Ravo<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Region 8 Winners! Superintendent of the Year: Paul Johnson Adult Education Administrator of the Year:\u00a0 Traci M. Williams Central Office Administrator of the Year:\u00a0 Maurissa Koide, EdD Classified Administrator of the Year:\u00a0 Laura Demaree Confidential Administrator of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/regions.acsa.org\/8\/2025-2026-awards-recipients\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3243","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regions.acsa.org\/8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regions.acsa.org\/8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regions.acsa.org\/8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regions.acsa.org\/8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/132"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regions.acsa.org\/8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/regions.acsa.org\/8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3244,"href":"https:\/\/regions.acsa.org\/8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3243\/revisions\/3244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regions.acsa.org\/8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}